正在中国访问的美军参谋长联席会议主席彼得·佩斯23日在北京举行的新闻发布会上表示，他与中国军方领导商谈了建立美中军事热线一事。“希望通过军事热线，增加双方沟通的机会，减少误判，消除误解。” ( Y5 Y% J9 I7 V) p1 B h% F- }; v, K, S o
佩斯是应中央军委委员、中国人民解放军总参谋长梁光烈的邀请，于22日开始对中国为期4天的正式访问。中央军委副主席郭伯雄，中央军委副主席、国务委员兼国防部长曹刚川22日分别会见了佩斯。梁光烈与佩斯举行了会谈。 6 L0 I6 g, V. O# q* \/ d4 w, y, P# L1 v e/ \' A7 J
佩斯说，他们讨论了通过其他途径增进两军间的信任，比如，互相观摩军事演习，共同参加人道主义救援，增加军官交流等。 0 h- ~9 ~7 y+ j! K5 ~7 p * |" \+ H: ~/ Y5 r/ M 佩斯一行是今年访华的第一个美国高级军事代表团，也是佩斯2005年就任美军参联会主席以来首次访华。1 ?) Z& H0 {* b, ]* a1 M
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U.S. general says Beijing 'hotline' possible 9 ]6 d; d; h4 }, C9 y5 ^% d$ K / S8 G& C3 ^5 s7 k' z1 b$ xBEIJING — China's military is proposing officer exchanges and other confidence-building measures with the U.S. Army and may be inching closer to setting up a “hotline” for emergency communication with Washington, the top U.S. general said Friday. 1 T. l) f4 t! d+ @4 b* ~8 U0 k! q% C8 P/ ~) ]
However, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he received no new information in meetings with Chinese military chiefs about Beijing's test of an anti-satellite weapon in January that raised concern in Washington. He said he continued to press China's generals for more transparency about the aims of their military buildup.( z7 D' A& m# n) w" W. @( Z
& y$ s: x% n5 ~“I used the example of the anti-satellite test as how sometimes the international community can be confused, because it was a surprise that China did that, and it wasn't clear what their intent was,” Gen. Pace said.( m* A& W' J" E( ?- k
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Gen. Pace said he immediately agreed to study the proposals put forward Friday by Gen. Liang Guanglie, chief of the PLA's General Staff Department. Liang's move suggested a departure from the skepticism with which the highly secretive People's Liberation Army has long regarded co-operation with the U.S. military.4 E/ v% i# n4 k. r" {9 f
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“To me this was a very good, open discussion and one that I found very encouraging,” Gen. Pace told reporters in Beijing.# I. H7 S' P9 ^1 J
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Gen. Liang's proposals included sending Chinese cadets to the Army academy at West Point as well as participating in joint exercises and humanitarian and relief-at-sea operations “that might be able to build trust and confidence amongst our forces.” ) J6 G ]% I3 |) N* T& O' _; J4 w- Y* E; ]4 Q# G# s5 r
Military exchanges were largely suspended following a collision between a U.S. spy plane and a Chinese jet fighter over the South China Sea in 2001. The Chinese pilot was killed and the U.S. crew held captive after making an emergency landing at a Chinese air base./ @6 Y- [9 E: P
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During that crisis, communication between the sides was spotty and at times non-existent, largely because Washington had no direct channel of communications with the Chinese leadership.0 t3 A# c# }8 c2 R5 g. t6 x
* c5 A* P. a2 J4 C" BGen. Pace said the sides agreed to keep discussing setting up a “hotline” between either military or civilian leaders that would help ease any future friction. 5 W1 u+ W, m& t. [1 t P5 z: y% O3 E
“The Chinese military understands as well as I do that the opportunity to pick up the phone and talk to somebody you know and smooth out misunderstandings quickly is a very important part of relations between two countries,” Gen. Pace said. : Y; O b! j" E2 u8 n; i' g4 j$ t1 { s; d' z' M9 p t" i1 LDeep mistrust remains, however, particularly over Washington's close military ties with Japan and commitment to help ensure the defence of Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers its own territory and which it has threatened to use force to recover. / d* p# c' H) J/ t% L7 n ]6 t% |6 k" N6 k7 U
China has complained about U.S. plans to sell a batch of more than 400 missiles to Taiwan, but Gen. Pace said he had no details and didn't indicate whether the deal was mentioned in discussions.( V S0 y# S0 K0 G+ [. m: a! @: B
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Asked about the possibility of a conflict over Taiwan, he said: “I believe there are good faith efforts among all the leadership to prevent that.”3 o9 |1 C. y3 m0 ~: M
+ f( ~# I4 I& V5 D$ u, s2 [The general didn't say how the Chinese officers responded to his calls for more transparency. China raised its military budget by 17.8 per cent this year to about $45-billion (U.S.) -- the biggest jump since 1995. The Pentagon says actual Chinese defence spending could be twice as high. - w3 A# T. j1 P' Q1 K, G 4 D2 ~& a% n" X/ D, [1 FThe spending boost and January's satellite test, in which China became only the third country to destroy an object in space by pulverizing one of its own unused satellites with a missile warhead, heightened the sense of unease in Washington over China's 2.3 million-member armed forces. / O7 M" O, J# o* h+ f6 N0 R w- Z+ H/ o4 m' X }
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Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. Peter Pace inspects the guard of honor during a welcome ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Beijing March 22, 2007.
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